Chapter 9 Food: Getting IT, Growing IT, Eating IT, And Passing IT Around
The questions in this quiz are not of my creation. They are solely used as study material.
- 1.A society's techniques for acquiring food resources is/are its:
- A.
Shopping habits
- B.
Economy
- C.
Subsistence pattern
- D.
Market system
- 2.Humans probably began meat-eating as:
- A.
Scavengers
- B.
Big game hunters
- C.
Herders
- D.
Fishermen
- 3.Big game hunting probably became important:
- A.
On the savannas of Africa
- B.
In the tropical forests
- C.
In glacial areas during the Pleistocene
- D.
Only in recent times after the advent of farming
- 4.For most hunter-gatherer societies, most of the diet comes from:
- A.
Hunted meat
- B.
Gathered plants
- C.
Domesticated food sources
- D.
Fish and small game
- 5.Anthropologist formerly emphasized hunting among hunter-gatherers for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
- A.
It was the major source of food
- B.
Hunting was seen as the more exciting and romantic endeavor
- C.
Hunter-gatherers themselves placed a social emphasis on hunting
- D.
Hunting is a more dangerous, more tenuous activity
- 6.The farming ideas of the Soviet scientist Lysenko did not work because they were based on:
- A.
Religious belief
- B.
Marxist-Leninist social theory
- C.
Lamarckian ideas about evolution
- D.
Mendelian genetics
- 7.Foraging is a synonym for:
- A.
Hunting-gathering
- B.
Horticulture
- C.
Agriculture
- D.
Pastoralism
- 8.Which is most accurate regarding foraging societies in the world today?
- A.
There are about 30,000 foragers left
- B.
There are millions of people who still rely on foraged food
- C.
There are no societies left that are true foragers
- D.
Foragers are isolated so we don't know how many are left
- 9.Why have anthropologists traditionally focused so much on the study of foraging groups?
- A.
They are simple societies and so easy to study
- B.
All humans were foragers for over 90% of human history
- C.
They are exotic and interesting
- D.
They are technologically simple and don't complain about being photographed
- 10.Foraging societies are egalitarian. This means that:
- A.
There are no important differences among the people
- B.
People are equal in wealth although not in status
- C.
People are equal in status although not in wealth
- D.
There are no recognized, formalized status or wealth differences
- 11.Which is the most accurate statement about foraging societies?
- A.
They are usually on the brink of starvation
- B.
They have to try hard to increase their birth rate to maintain their population
- C.
They have to practice methods to limit their birth rate
- D.
They are now extinct because they could not produce enough food
- 12.Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of foraging societies?
- A.
Egalitarian
- B.
Polytheistic
- C.
Nomadic
- D.
Individual land holdings
- 13.The division of labor typical among foragers is that:
- A.
Individual jobs are done by individual specialists
- B.
Men hunt and women gather
- C.
Pretty much everyone does every important task
- D.
The lower classes do most of the manual labor
- 14.The egalitarian San from the Kalahari of southern Africa have one symbol of differential status. It is that:
- A.
Good hunters get more meat from the kill
- B.
Women who gather more plants have more power
- C.
Successful healers sometimes have more than one wife
- D.
Larger individual groups have the right to a larger territory
- 15.For the San, "insulting the meat" is a means of:
- A.
Maintaining their egalitarian outlook
- B.
Keeping anthropologists from feeling superior
- C.
Keeping less powerful men from achieving higher status
- D.
Showing the spirit of the dead animal the superiority of humans
- 16.The first evidence of food production comes from about:
- A.
250,000 years ago
- B.
100,000 years ago, with the first modern humans
- C.
12,000 years ago
- D.
Around the beginning of the Christian era
- 17.Evidence for the transition to food producing is in all the following forms EXCEPT:
- A.
Artifacts used in food producing and processing
- B.
Remains of ancient grains
- C.
Ancient paintings of people planting
- D.
Biological differences between wild and domestic plants and animals
- 18.Intensive foraging refers to:
- A.
The overexploitation of an environment by hunting and gathering
- B.
Large scale farming or herding
- C.
The exploitation of new food sources after the final glacial recession
- D.
Extra energy put into foraging to stave off starvation
- 19.The exploitation of new food sources available in some areas after the final recession of the Pleistocene glaciers 12,000 years ago is known as:
- A.
Food producing
- B.
Intensive foraging
- C.
Horticulture
- D.
Domestication
- 20.Archaeologist Kent Flannery suggests that farming probably began:
- A.
In the midst of areas of rich natural resources
- B.
In areas of poor natural resources
- C.
In the tropics
- D.
In poor areas at the margins of rich ones
- 21.The first animal species to be domesticated was probably:
- A.
Cattle
- B.
Corn
- C.
Reindeer
- D.
Dogs
- 22.Evidence of the domestic dog goes back to:
- A.
100,000 years ago
- B.
35,000 years ago
- C.
12,000 years ago
- D.
7, 000 years ago
- 23.Other than the dog, domestic animals begin to appear about:
- A.
35,000 years ago
- B.
10,000 years ago
- C.
5, 000 years ago
- D.
2,000 years ago, around the beginning of the Common Era
- 24.Which of the following was NOT a New World domesticate?
- A.
Llamas
- B.
Turkeys
- C.
Guinea pigs
- D.
Bison (buffalo)
- 25.Which is NOT a reason for the lateness of domestication in the New World?
- A.
Humans didn't enter the New World until later
- B.
The early humans in the New World were not as intellectually advanced
- C.
There were fewer domesticable species in the New World
- D.
Important wild food sources were found in great abundance
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